http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/855 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/stimulus-funds-provide-welcome-research-boost <!--paging_filter--><p>In remarks last month at the <a href="http://www.nih.gov/recovery/index.htm">National Institutes of Health</a> (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-on-the-American-Recovery-and-Reinvestment-Act-at-the-National-Institutes-of-Health/">President Barack Obama</a> said not only do we need stimulus money to create thousands of jobs in the sciences and technology, but also to get the progress of the nation’s research back on track.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/stimulus-funds-provide-welcome-research-boost">read more</a></p> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:15:58 -0400 705287540 21109 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/scientists-probe-northern-hemisphere-ozone-loss <!--paging_filter--><p>The ozone layer shields us from cancerous ultraviolet radiation. Understanding how it is being destroyed was the mission of more than 350 scientists from the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Russia; 19 of the researchers came from Harvard. The exploration included the first high-altitude reconnaissance flights over Russia since the Soviet Union shot down Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane in 1960. The flights in 2000 were made by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration ER-2 aircraft, a civilian version of the U-2. These sorties were part of the largest international effort to date to measure ozone in this hemisphere.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/scientists-probe-northern-hemisphere-ozone-loss">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:03:51 -0400 70652986 2744 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu